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When it comes to managing secret tokens whatever you do someone will come out and say you’re doing it wrong and propose an alternate solution that on the surface seems to be better but upon closer scrutiny is susceptible to the same attack vectors. The secure solutions is always some kind of custom solution for storing secrets that provides an audit trail. The audit trail means whenever a secret is accessed you have a log entry of it somewhere. Which is nice because when stuff leaks you can in theory trace it back to some specific person. Unless that person was hacked and they were used as a patsy. So today let’s compare storing encrypted secrets in git or some custom solution that is not git. Continue reading →